World Anti-Communist League

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The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) was founded in 1966 in Taipei , Republic of China on Taiwan as an extension of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) and on July 23, 1990 at the 22nd General Assembly in Brussels in World League for Freedom and Democracy , which came into force on January 1, 1991, was renamed.

background

The Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL, now known as the Asian-Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy ) had its roots in the China Lobby, a group aiming to stop official international recognition of the Chinese communist government. The China lobby had ties to the US government and the CIA , whose agent Ray Cline helped the group create the Taiwanese Political Warfare Cadres Academy in the late 1950s.

The founders of the APACL were members of the governments of Taiwan and Korea, including Park Chung Hee , later President of Korea, Kodama Yoshio , later identified as a member of organized crime in Japan, Ryoichi Sasakawa , a Japanese billionaire and criminal who was identified as a war criminal after the Second World War went to prison, Osami Kuboki, as well as other supporters of Reverend Sun Myung Moon , then head of the Unification Church . Elpidio Quirino , former President of the Republic of the Philippines (1948-53), and Syngman Rhee from South Korea were also among the founders of the APACL, which was finally established on June 15, 1954 in Jinhae, capital of South Korea during the war. The first general conference was also held in Jinhae and was attended by representatives from a number of countries, including South Vietnam , Thailand , the US occupied territory of the Ryukyu Islands and the former colonies of Hong Kong and Macau .

In 1966, the number of APACL member countries in Asia, Australia and Africa had increased to 27. At its 12th conference in Seoul on November 3, 1966, a committee of fifteen was formed to discuss the expansion of the organization. The committee eventually decided to create a new anti-communist organization including the APACL, regional organizations, and an international anti-communist organization. On November 7, 1966, the delegates adopted the “Charter of the World Anti-Communist League” in a plenary session. It was also decided that Tawain should be in charge of organizing the first general conference.

The charter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), divided into 8 sections and 32 paragraphs, came into force on April 1, 1967 and defined the division of the WACL into six regional organizations: Asia (now the Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy ) , Middle East (now Middle East Solidarity Council ), Africa (now African Organization for Freedom and Democracy ), Europe (now European Council for World Freedom ), North America (now North American Federation for Freedom and Democracy ) and Latin America (now Federation of Latin American Democratic Organization ). The representatives of Asian regions within the organization were the main driving force behind the WACL's missions.

Germany

Axel Fischer has been president of the German section since 2012 .

Controversial members

Numerous Nazi collaborators and Latin American death squads were active in the World Anti-Communist League. Prominent members include:

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bodenheimer, Richard Gould: Rollback: Right-wing Power in US Foreign Policy . South End Press, Boston MA 1989.
  2. ↑ World Anti-Communist League ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Institute for Policy Studies, January 9, 1990 (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rightweb.irc-online.org
  3. ^ Scott & Jon Lee Anderson: Inside the League . Dodd, Mead & Company, New York 1986; archive.org